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Summer Sticker Trail around Kettering Town Centre

From Thursday 22nd July – Saturday 28th August,
10am – 4pm

Collect your passport from Kettering Swimming Pool and explore the map to find clues, claim your treat and be entered in our prize draw to be in with a chance to win some fantastic prizes this summer. Free to take part.

Pop Up Family Activities at Kettering Market Place

Every Saturday, 10am – 3pm

From Saturday 24th July – Saturday 28th August

Free activities and entertainment for the whole family, Just turn up and see what is happening in your local town centre! Support your local town centre, Shop and Enjoy Local.

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Week 1

    • Balloon Modelling 
    • Kettering Library Take over 
    • Story telling 
    • Show & Tell 
    • Reading Challenge
    • Craft Activities
    • Giant Games 
    • Table Tennis Table
    • Splash Fountains

Week 2

    • Balloon Modelling
    • Kettering Library Take over Part 2
    • Story telling
    • Songs & Rhymetime
    • Reading Challenge
    • Craft Activities
    • Giant Games
    • Table Tennis Table
    • Splash Fountains
    • Face Painting

Week 3

    • Balloon Modelling
    • Juggling
    • Football Panna Cage
    • Football Speed Cage
    • Tennis Club
    • Sport partners stalls
    • Table Tennis Table
    • Giant Games
    • Splash Fountains
    • Face Painting

Week 4

    • Balloon Modelling 
    • Juggling 
    • Circus Skills Workshop
    • Table Tennis Tables
    • Giant games 
    • Circus Crafts 
    • Splash Fountains Face
    • Painting Ribbon
    • Dance Workshop 

Week 5

    • Balloon Modelling
    • Juggling
    • Stilt Walkers with Bubbles
    • Junk Percussion Workshop
    • The Rig Arts & Crafts
    • Table Tennis Tables
    • Giant games
    • Splash Fountains
    • Face Painting

Week 6

    • Balloon Modelling
    • Juggling
    • Stilt Walkers with Bubbles
    • Circus Skills Workshop
    • Table Tennis Tables
    • Giant games
    • Circus Crafts
    • Splash Fountains
    • Face Painting
    • Ribbon Dance Workshop
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Summer playschemes around the surroundings of Kettering are back for 2021 from 26th July to 16th August in Kettering, Geddington, Broughton, Wilbarston, Burton Latimer, Rothwell Library, Desborough Library and Mawsley, showcasing the Looking Glass Theatre’s New Puppet Storytelling Show and Steve the Magician Magic Show.

Free just turn up! * (please contact the Libraries directly to book)

  •   Jack and the Beanstalk- Monday 26th July – 11am
    Looking Glass Theatre– Monday 2nd August – 11am
    Steve the Magician– Monday 9th August – 11am
    Looking Glass Theatre – Monday 16th August – 11am

  • Steve the Magician – Tuesday 27th July – 11am
    Looking Glass Theatre – Tuesday 10th August – 11am

  • Steve the Magician – Tuesday 27th July – 2pm
    Looking Glass Theatre – Thursday 5th August – 2pm
  • Looking Glass Theatre  – Thursday 29th July – 11am
    Steve the Magician  – Thursday 5th August – 11am

street sports

Street Sports returns for summer 2021!

Join us for fun, fast and totally free football sessions running at a venue near you throughout August, starting from Monday 2nd. Lace up your boots for goals and goodies galore.

Mondays at Desborough Leisure Centre (3G pitch),
Wednesdays at Kettering Buccleuch Academy (3G pitch) and
Fridays at Burton Latimer Recreation Ground.
2-3pm for children aged 7-9, 3-4pm for ages 10-12.

Places are limited – to book or for more information contact leisure.kbc@northnorthants.gov.uk or phone 0300 126 3000 and speak to the community services team in Kettering.

Park Bingo

Families looking for things to do can explore the town’s green spaces, thanks to the free Keep Discovering Kettering Park Bingo passport trail.

The trail invites you to discover green spaces across Kettering to find more than 20 animals and other characters on wooden posts around the town’s parks. Participants can place their passport over the stencil and use a crayon to colour it in.

Printed passports contain a guide to the locations of the posts, you will need to explore the park to find the post and a blank space for your rubbing so you can collect them all. Passports can be picked up from several venues across Kettering.

For more information and to download your passport online, visit: www.thisiskettering.com/keephealthy

(This website has most of the info already https://thisiskettering.com/get-active/# )

  

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Bands in the Park 2021

Come and enjoy music in the beautiful surroundings of Rockingham Road Pleasure Park at its Victorian style bandstand built in 1936.

The performance takes place at Rockingham Road Pleasure Park bandstand 3pm – 5pm. See schedule below. 

Performances are free and bring along your chairs, picnic and enjoy the music.

Toilets are available at Rockingham Road Park Pavilion.